Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2021-10-28

Re: [PATCH ebpf v2 2/2] bpf: Make unprivileged bpf depend on CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE

From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2021-10-28 19:36:53
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On 28.10.2021 07:34, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 06:35:44PM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
quoted
Disabling unprivileged BPF would help prevent unprivileged users from
creating the conditions required for potential speculative execution
side-channel attacks on affected hardware. A deep dive on such attacks
and mitigation is available here [1].

If an architecture selects CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE, disable unprivileged BPF
by default. An admin can enable this at runtime, if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>

[1] https://ebpf.io/summit-2021-slides/eBPF_Summit_2021-Keynote-Daniel_Borkmann-BPF_and_Spectre.pdf
This should go above the signed-off-by line, in the changelog text, not
below it, otherwise our tools get confused when trying to apply it.
Thanks, I will fix it.
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